Wow that is absolutely so bizarre. I'm surprised they continued to use these airplanes after all this. I guess if you can pop in and out in 45 mins it doesn't really hurt THAT much, but still!

Just out of curiosity, on the flight plan, how accurate was the fuel burn section? Did you guys know before you left there was a good probability of a diversion?

And why on gods green earth would someone divert to Stewart (20 miles north of EWR). You couldn't squeeze out another 20 miles?

I've only flown DUB-EWR on CAL, and it was on a 757. i thought it was great, as I had my own row of BusinessFirst, so I was oblivious to everything else after about 30 minutes!